From PBS:
Baseball great Roberto Clemente's talent and inimitable style drew legions of fans, but as this American Experience production reveals, he was more than an exceptional baseball player. He was also a committed humanitarian who challenged racial discrimination and worked for social justice.
In this podcast, Richard Miller describes the first major league baseball game on the West Coast, on April 15, 1958, when the Giants played the Dodgers.
This Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition podcast outlines the life and impact of Puerto Rican baseball player Roberto Clemente (19341972), who, later in life, played professional baseball in the U.S. and became a hero and spokesman for Puerto Rico, as well as a civil rights activist.
The Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum commemorates figures and processes crucial to or exemplary of Mississippi sportsmanship. Museum exhibit topics include sports broadcasting; Dizzy Dean (1910-1974), famed baseball pitcher; major sports figures; Mississippi Olympic medal winners; sports medicine; high school athletes; golf; soccer; baseball; and football. Several exhibits encourage active participation.
The museum offers an 11-minute introductory film, interactive and traditional exhibits, scavenger hunts for groups, and food service for groups. Reservations are suggested for groups of 12 or more. Advance notice is required for food service.
The Hartwick Pines Logging Museum, located in a stand of virgin white pine, takes visitors back to the days of the 19th-century logging industry, through a visitors' center, logging camp buildings, and forest trails—one of which leads to the 300-year-old Monarch pine.
The museum offers exhibits, tours for school groups, and occasional 1860s-period baseball games.
The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum presents the history of African American baseball between the late 1800s and 1960s, when leagues were largely segregated. Exhibits include league information, historic photographs, information on African American businesses and period styles, and statues. The interior entrance emulates a period baseball stadium. The museum is located in Kansas City's 18th and Vine district, historically central to the city's African American population.
The museum offers multi-media exhibits; three films, including an eight-minute oral history interview presentation; and self-guided tours. Reservations are required for groups of over 25. These groups will be offered an introduction and, if possible, a guided tour.
The Minnesota Amateur Baseball Hall of Fame was first opened in 1992 in order to chronicle the history of amateur baseball in history since its beginning in 1857. The purpose of the Hall of Fame is to honor those who have dedicated their lives to amateur baseball progress, through playing the game as well as work in the community to keep amateur baseball alive and kicking. Members are not chosen solely by their statistics as a player, but also by their contribution to the game through volunteerism, fund raising, promotion, and general community involvement.
The Hall of Fame offers visitors a variety of exhibits and collections that showcase the history and progress of amateur baseball in Minnesota through the years. The site offers visitor information, online photographs and historical information regarding the Hall of Fame's uniform, equipment, and memorabilia collections, a listing of all Hall of Fame inductees, and an online store.
The Association is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving history, protecting nature and open space, and creating tourism destinations in the I&M Canal National Heritage Corridor. The Association also manages the Gaylord Building, a National Trust Historic Site, in Lockport, Illinois. One of the oldest industrial buildings in the I&M Canal National Heritage Corridor, the 1838 Gaylord Building is a model of adaptive reuse, featuring the Public Landing restaurant, canal exhibits and more. More than 150 years ago, the Gaylord Building played a major role in creation of the Illinois & Michigan Canal, the final link in America’s great water highway system of the 19th century. The Building also serves as a base for the Lockport Sleepers Vintage Base Ball Club, composed of living historians who interpret the national pastime as it was played in the late 1850s.
The association offers lectures and educational and recreational events; the building offers exhibits, tours, occasional living history events, and educational and recreational programs.
The Museum collects, preserves and displays the 5,000-year history that has led to the worldwide success of bowling.
The museum and hall offer exhibits, film clips, tours, and educational programs.
This Electronic Field Trip takes a look at the song, "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," written by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer a century ago. Today, "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" is synonymous with a baseball game's seventh-inning stretch, but the song was originally written to be performed on home pianos and the vaudeville stage.
Broadcast from Brooklyn, NY, this presentation explores not only the history of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game", but also the influence of various musical styles of the past 100 years from vaudeville and swing to rock and hip hop.
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